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...only to stay but to contribute very definitely to the enjoyment of life. Probably not every undergraduate can become state champion, but those who learn squash while the facilities and time are offered can look forward to an existence not entirely grey. For they will have at their command a form of physical relaxation somewhat more entertaining than the Swedish drill, Indian clubs, and medicine balls of their ancestors...
Turning to the Premier the Commander-in-Chief said: "Three hundred thousand bayonets of the Militia are at your command...
General Carias, most popular Presidential candidate in the recent election, who failed to receive a majority, left Teguciagalpa, Honduran capital, to command an army preparatory to a march on the capital...
...They marry. And he manages to find some measure of content. This is a first novel. It is the story of the ex-soldier who cannot adjust himself and, as such, should be widely interesting. It is not well planned, however, and written with hardly enough distinction to command quite all the praise it has received...
...success, a party of British army officers and explorers will attempt this summer to scale Mt. Everest, king of the Himalayas and the world's highest peak (est. 29,002 ft.). Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, who led the almost successful expedition of 1922, will again be in command. With him will be Major E. F. Norton, D.S.O., George Leigh Mallory, T. Howard Somervell, Captain C. J. Morris and Captain Geoffrey Bruce, of the 1922 party, all of whom reached heights of 27,000 ft. or over. It was Captain Bruce who, with one other man, and using oxygen...